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HAMILTON — As the snow picked up and the clock neared 7 p.m., Colgate players and personnel knelt at Andy Kerr Stadium’s 50-yard line. Dan Hunt, the Raiders’ fifth-year head coach, remained standing.
“I know you guys are scared,” Hunt said to his team, “but we have the opportunity to do something we’ve never done. Trust me, this isn’t impossible.”
Hunt didn’t hide the fact that his team was facing the No. 1 team in the FCS, a lower tier of Division I football: North Dakota State, which he refers to as “the Alabama of their league.